Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley
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(Geoffrey) Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley (29 June 1909 – 28 February 1999) was a British Conservative politician, peer and newspaper editor.
Berry's father was James Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley (1883–1968), a prominent newspaper baron, owner of titles including The Sunday Times and the Daily Record.
Berry served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II until he was invalided in 1942. The following year 1943, in a wartime by-election on 4th April, he was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Buckingham. However, he lost his seat to Labour at the 1945 general election.
Berry was managing editor of the Daily Sketch and later Deputy Chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Limited. He succeeded as Viscount Kemsley upon his father's death in 1968. By then, his father's newspaper business had been sold off and Berry played no further part in it. He married Lady Helene Candida Hay, daughter of William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale, on 21 June 1933. They had four daughters. He was succeeded as Viscount by his nephew, Richard Gomer Berry.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Whiteley |
Member of Parliament for Buckingham 1943–1945 |
Succeeded by Aidan Crawley |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (James) Gomer Berry |
Viscount Kemsley 1968–1999 |
Succeeded by Richard Gomer Berry |
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